Bao Anh vocab 1/3

Question 1

mundane

Answer 1

ordinary, not interesting

Question 2

meet a deadline

Answer 2

have something finished by a fixed day or time

Question 3

stimulating

Answer 3

encouraging new ideas or new thinking

Question 4

knock off

Answer 4

finish work

Question 5

monotonous

Answer 5

boring because it never changes

Question 6

stuck behind a desk

Answer 6

sitting at a desk all day

Question 7

mind-numbing

Answer 7

extremely boring

Question 8

stuck in a rut

Answer 8

stuck/ trapped in a job they can’t escape from

Question 9

dead-end

Answer 9

with no propects of promotion

Question 10

went in with

Answer 10

formed a business partnership with

Question 11

morale

Answer 11

amount of confidence felt by a person or group

Question 12

increments

Answer 12

(formal) increases; rises

Question 13

voluntary/ compulsory redundancies

Answer 13

people losing their jobs, by offering to do so/ having no choice

Question 14

pension

Answer 14

lương hưu

Question 15

entilement

Answer 15

quyền lợi

Question 16

a cushy number

Answer 16

a very easy job

Question 17

get a foot in the door

Answer 17

take a job at a low level in an organisation, because you want a better job in the same organisation in the future

Question 18

slog my guts out

Answer 18

work very hard/ use a lot of effort

Question 19

a golden handshake

Answer 19

a large payment made to someone when they leave their job, either because their employer as asked them to leave, or as a reward for good service when they retired

Question 20

a golden hello

Answer 20

a large payment made to someone when they accept a new job

Question 21

stifle sth

Answer 21

stop something from happening or developing

Question 22

enterprise

Answer 22

the ability to think of new ideas and make them successful

Question 23

undermine

Answer 23

make sb/sth gradually weaker or less effective

Question 24

lucrative

Answer 24

producing a large amount of money

Question 25

subsidized

Answer 25

partly paid for by an organization in order to make it cheaper for the people who use it

Question 26

encroach upon sth

Answer 26

affect or use up too much of sb’s time, rights, personal life,… (chiếm dụng)